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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 26), Jrgen Spiegel said:
> I can't get it to work.
> 
> I`ve read many of the Howtos and newgroups discussions on that theme,
> but there are no usefull hints for this special proclem.
> 
> The other NIS-Clients on my network (Solaris, AIX, Linux) can do
> connect with any username set in the /etc/passwd on the NIS-Server
> without any problems.
> 
> I knew traditional NIS and the most of the common problems, but in
> this case I am perplex.

So far you have told us you have some unknown version of FreeBSD as a
client, some unknown version of Linux, and you care having some unknown
problem.

We need details.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com